Sid Haig, the journeyman genre actor who found latter-day fame as murderous clown Captain Spaulding in the films of Rob Zombie, has died. His wife, Susan L. Oberg, confirmed the news via Instagram, saying, “He adored his family, his friends and his fans.”

We’re mere weeks away from one of the longest teased television-to-film events in recent memory. The fact that the Breaking Bad film is actually real is still a little hard to believe, despite an earlier date announcement starring none other than Skinny Pete. But with October 11 quickly approaching, Netflix still had…

Finally: TV’s biggest night! The one time of the year when everybody takes a moment to recognize that, yes, TV is often better than movies. Last week saw the annual celebration of the non-famous people who do good work in the TV industry at the Creative Arts Emmys, with most of those awards going to Game Of Thrones,…

Michelle Williams just won her first Emmy (as Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie) for personifying Gwen Verdon in the FX mini-series Fosse/Verdon. It’s an astonishing performance, as Williams completely inhabits the part of the Broadway legend, whose career unfairly took a back set to her…

The 71st Emmys kicked off with enough scripted chaos to jokingly call their choice to go hostless into question. Homer Simpson attempted to get the festivities started with a spirited monologue that was sure to be riddled with mispronunciations and muddled cultural references when he falls victim to a randomly…

The 71st Emmys ceremony, the crown jewel of awards season for TV viewers, will be broadcast live on Fox on Sunday, September 22. The event will be simulcast on both coasts, so if you’re hosting an Emmy party in the heart of Tinseltown, plan for an early-bird special.

In 2016 (pre-election, if you want to join us in a Lost-style “we have to go back!”), the tech industry started to pick up on rumors that Disney was planning to buy a little-known, semi-popular social media website called “Twitter” that had yet to officially be involved in the systematic destruction of global…

It looks like no musical artist is free from the pressures of continuing to release new albums even after they’ve died, with Adam Cohen, son of legendary singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen, announcing that he, some producers, and some other artists—including Damien Rice, Leslie Feist, Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire,…

Forget remakes and reboots: The hot thing in Hollywood now is apparently direct sequels that go back to what people like about older movies without literally retelling the exact same story—just the same basic story. Halloween was big and the new Terminator looks promising, and they both jettisoned the bad sequels in…

Fresh off of that cameo on the new Taylor Swift album and 16 years after Natalie Maines dared to suggest that George W. Bush was bad guy (this was before that sort of thing was normal, since we can say that the current president is an enormous piece of shit and nobody’s going to excommunicate us from the country music…

It’s that time of year again, folks: Batman Day, the annual holiday in which one of the world’s largest corporations invites us to think about one of its most lucrative mascots, even more than we already do. (And let’s be very clear here: We think about Batman a lot.) To celebrate the event, DC Comics has decided to…

As far as creepypasta with a healthy shelf-life goes, it’s hard to beat “Squidward’s Suicide.” Tracking down the exact origin points of internet ghost stories can be an exercise in futility, but there’s been video of the faux SpongeBob SquarePants episode—in which sadsack Squidward supposedly takes his own life, after…

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness gave an interview to The New York Times today, discussing details from his upcoming memoir, Over The Top. It’s bracingly candid stuff, as Van Ness digs deep into aspects of his past that offer a contrast to the bubbly version of himself he plays on the critically acclaimed Netflix…

It’s the 21st of September, known to many people as “Earth, Wind, And Fire Day,” in reference to the band’s 1979 track, “September.” But it’s known by a different title here at The A.V. Club (and in other corners of the online world): Happy “How The Hell Is Demi Adejuyigbe Going To Top Himself Celebrating Earth,…

You know you’re in for a top-notch, tense thriller experience when a trailer resorts to straight up shouting “CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY?!” to prospective who-did-what viewers. That’s the major marketing thrust for Netflix’s new MYSTERY movie Fractured, in which Sam Worthington (Avatar, although you’d be forgiven for…

There have been books written—and likely more to come—about all the ways Hollywood, and especially Hollywood men, Did Not Talk about Harvey Weinstein. Which is to say they talked, of course, across literal decades of abuse. But not anywhere that was especially useful to the women trapped in Weinstein’s orbit, whether…

There are few properties on the planet that have been re-imagined more aggressively than Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Puppets, Muppets, cartoon mice, and the Bobcat Goldthwait-Bill Murray double-team have all tried their hand at the immortal ode to altruism, big-ass turkey dinners, and a conveniently Jesus-free…

As one of the O.G. members of the outed-by-#MeToo crew, Charlie Rose has fallen a considerable distance over the last two years. Faced with accusations from more than two dozen women of persistent patterns of sexual harassment stretching across decades of work, Rose has since lost all of his TV gigs, had major awards…

Beyond the occasional retweet and stray promotion here and there, Kirsten Dunst is not the most active being on social media. However, she did manage to catch that oddly reductive tweet from Reuters and, unsurprisingly, she was less than pleased. When the news broke last month that Dunst, whose career spans three…

Cinematic masterpiece Mean Girls declared that Halloween is when you can let your freak flag fly by dressing in lingerie in public. There’s some truth to that, of course, but that surely doesn’t give one permission to smut up the squeakiest of our squeaky clean icons. Alas, the popularity of last year’s Won’t You Be…